on a farm,1/3 of the trees are guava trees, 1/8 are banana trees, and the rest are mango trees. if there are 117 mango trees in tbe farm,how many trees are there in all?

Question

Its using block model approach

Answer 1

1/3+1/8=11/24 so 13/24 are mangoes, and to find how many trees there are we invert this fraction and multiply by 117: 24/13×117=24×9=216 trees.